Cool Down with Agatha Christie – Standalones Readalong

You may have heard that HarperCollins is reissuing all of Agatha Christie’s books exclusively. To celebrate, they have enlisted my help, along with Book Club Girl and three other bloggers to host an Agatha Christie Summer Readalong Extravaganza called “Cool Down With Agatha Christie,” which will be taking place this June, July, and August.

Here’s what HarperCollins has to say about the reissues:

HarperCollins is proud to now be Agatha Christie’s global publisher and will be reissuing all of her books in beautiful trade paperback editions. These wonderful authentic editions are exactly as Christie wrote them using the original UK texts. Read

all of the Christie mysteries including the Hercule Poirot Mysteries, the Miss Marple Mysteries, and the Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries (Winter 2012). And don’t miss a single one of Christie’s stand-alone novels and short stories.

I will specifically be hosting a readalong of some of the standalone books during the fourth Friday of every month. If you want to start getting ready now, here is my schedule:

If you plan to participate in any of the events, we encourage to leave a link on the Mr. Linky below (please note, all of our blogs have the same Mr. Linky, so you only need to leave your information once), either to an announcement post or to your blog in general:

If you are planning to participate in my first readalong for Endless Night, please leave your name in the Google form below. I will choose five people who have signed up at random to receive copies of the book from HarperCollins. Please sign up by 11:59 pm Central on Friday, June 3. Winners will be notified over the weekend. Having a blog is NOT a requirement.

I’m exaggerating when I say I’m thrilled. I was planning on doing an Agatha read-a-thon this summer. I don’t know how many of her stand-a-lones I’ve read even though I’ve always meant to get to them. I always think I’ve read all her stuff but I know I haven’t because there’s just so much. This is going to be fun.

This sounds like such fun! I read many of Agatha Christies books years ago and have been thinking about reading ones I haven’t or rereading some of the ones I loved. And I’ve been watching Masterpiece Mysteries series of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries, too, on Netflix so all of these readalong and movie watching events are terrific!

There was a separate signup when we discussed THE PALE HORSE to sign up for AND THEN THERE WERE NONE. It is too late to sign up for a complimentary copy, but you do not have to sign up in order to participate! On Monday morning the top post on this blog will be our discussion of AND THEN THERE WERE NONE and all are welcome to participate. The second post down will be to sign up for the ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE readalong.

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